Managing Software Architecture in Domains of Security-Critical Systems

This chapter describes the management and technological considerations on software architecture and the executive approach to projects that need security-critical and multifaceted requirements. This results in several agreements, one of which is to promote measures regarding the exchange of information from the private sector through public networks. The authors put forward ways to approach these issues and their difficulties from the perspective that there are technical-administrative e-Government models that can be applied to developing countries and encourage a global alliance - in line with the United Nations Millennium Goals (MDG) - for development that will help attain the remaining goals in the immediate future.

Global Activism, Advocacy, and Transformation

In almost every nation, the severe and chronic global nursing shortage continues to threaten the health and well-being of people across the globe. Florence Nightingale’s legacy of activism is closely aligned with integrative nursing and the United Nations Millennium Goals. Together, they lay out a bold agenda that calls nurses to a way of being-doing-knowing that embraces activism, advocacy and transformation. As 21st century Nightingales, our own deep personal and professional integrative nursing mission can continually transform our own lives, thus allowing each of us to become effective catalysts for human health and to sustain our change agency for global transformation.